Packaged piece goods



April 24, 5 l. J. MISHKIN 2,550,285

PACKAGED PIECE GOODS Filed Jan. 6, 1949 JNVENTOR. 1mm J. MISHKIN asgloves or stockings are normally sold aged units.

Patented Apr. 24, 1951 PACKAGED PIECE GOODS Irving J. Mishkin, New York,N. Y., assignor to The Lamport Company, Inc., New York, N. Y.

Application January 6, 1949, Serial No. 69,470

4 7 Claims.

"This invention relates to new and useful improvements in goodspackaging, and, more particularly, the aim is to provide a novel andvaluable packaging of textile piece goods.

The cardinal object of the invention is to provide an improved packagingfor a definite, specific article of merchandiseand yet one which like acloth remnant may vary in areal or length characteristic, and wherein,in addition to providing a protective and preferably a transparentenvelope, this latter for adequately displaying the merchandise, thepackaging is eifected in a mannor to prevent the direct fingering andpossible soiling of all but an inconsequential portion of the packagedarticle, and at the same time in a manner to project the last-namedportion of the article beyond the sealed portion of the package and at alocation such that said portion may be given a close and whollysatisfactory visual and tactile examination for determination of textureand quality.

The present invention is to be sharply distinguished from previousproposals for the display of merchandise characterized merely byexpedients to add visually to' the sales appeal and/or to add to thesales appeal by some actual or allegedly unique exposure of the entiretyor a part of the article and/or by an artistic eifect sought to .beattained by a special draping, flufiing or other arrangement of saidarticle. Otherwise stated, these proposals have essentially been solelydecorative or artistic, rather than utilitarian, or, if utilitarian inany, sense, merely such from the standpoint of better or more attentionstriking visual display.

Another feature of the present invention whereby it differs radicallyfrom the prior suggestions referred to is thatthe latter all have to dowith articles fabricated to a norm, with each of such.

articles packaged as a unit exactly like all its fellows. For examplearticles in the class of hair-nets, handkerchiefs, neokties or goodssuch cially cut oii'lengths irom such bolt particularly specified by theparticular customer at the time of retail sale. Ordinarily, the bolt ofcloth, as bought by a garment manufacturer,is used inthe making ofgarments for sale; and if the bol'tof present invention has I cloth isbought by a department store owner or. other shopkeeper it is forstocking his shelves so that a salesperson may cut from the bolt such tohalf width, and then rolled; a process known as doubling and rolling.Here, because of the double thickness of the cloth, the pieces usuallyrun. in length between 30 and 40 yards. I

,Shorter pieces than those last-mentioned are 7 generally understood inthe trade to have some-- as pack;

what lesser 'value, and when under 10 yards in length are spoken of asremnants or fall-offs.

These remnants result from small lengths re-, maining in the course ofmanufacture and proc-' essi'ng of the cloth, or sometimes from cuttingout a longer length a portion of which isdefective or; below standard.So far as I am aware there heretofore has been" no attempt to prepares'hortpieces of textile material, each of a preciselength, and soadapted,

for a particular purpose to be anticipated to be later in the mind of aparticular retail customer, and to prepare a plurality of such piecessome or all differing in areal expanse or lengthwise dimension, and topackage each of these short pieces in a special way, or, indeed, in anyway.

But by the packaging of the present invention,

there is presented a, piece of goods prepared, processed and finished asare other types of full- L length piece-goods, and cut into a specifiedlength; which is the length commonly requiredifor the making at home ofa'particular article of cloth-..

ing, as a dress. Furthermore, by the packaging of the present invention,said dresslength is complete and personalized to the extent that the,

customer can select it and carry it home in its packaged condition.Moreover, the new package, while fully protecting each short length ofpiece goods from. dust and damage from miscellaneous handling at theretail establishment, is so posedly transparent covering For furthercomprehension of the invention,

and of the objects and "advantages thereof, ref

Retailers erence will be had to the following description andaccomanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which the variousnovel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing a now favored way of packaging apiece of textile material pursuant to the invention.

Fig. 2 is a similar view, but partially broken away and partially insection, showing a now favored form of transparent envelope structurefor providing the finally established package, with the open end thereofillustrated as in course of being folded over after there has beeninserted into said envelope a piece of textile material folded andarrangedpursuant to the invention.

Fig. 3 is also a perspective view, this showing said piece of textilematerial as partially folded, with various portions thereof liftedsomewhat for clarity of explanation.

Fig. l is a top plan view of said piece of textile material, aspreparatorily first folded into a plurality of plies and as then given afirst subsequent fold, the latter shown by way of example as alengthwise fold to reduce the stack of said plies to half width; astiffener insert, as a sheet of ordinary cardboard, being here shown ina convenient placement of the same, so as ultimately to have such sheetdisposed as in Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is an end elevation of the arrangement shown in Fig. 4, lookingtoward the right in the latter view.

Fig. 6 is a side elevation of said arrangement, looking upward in Fig.4.

Fig. 7 is a somewhat enlarged detail perspective view, fragmentarilyshowing the completed package of Fig. 1.

v In the drawings, relative thicknesses are exaggerated at variousplaces, particularly in Figs. 5 and 6.

The piece of goods IE! to be packaged pursuant to the invention, as inanenvelope i2, which latter is desirably made of a very thin, pliant andtransparent material such as glassine, cellophane, pliofilm or the like,may be variously folded, and with all of such folds similarly extendedor with some extended angularly relative to another or others, as bestsuited to the dimensions of said envelope or an equivalent and thedimensional characteristics of said piece it), to provide, preferably, aplural-ply slab-like compacting of said piece.

As indicated in Figs. 36, the piece it is shown, by way of example, asvariously folded to establish first a main stack Id of plies of thegoods; and then this main stack is folded along the two lines l5 and [5to swing in toward each other lon- 'gitudinal side portions of the stackI l, to reduce the width. of the stack and substantially all over thesame to double the plurality of plies present along opposite sides of acentral slender'portion l7.

Now the provision of the already mentioned corner portion of the pieceHi to be finally pro-, truded as at IS in Fig. 1 is prepared for; andalso, if the already mentioned cardboard stiffener or equivalent is tobe included in the package, the same, indicated at !9, is had ready athand, for being at this time placed as shown in Fig. 4 or for insertioninto the goods piece It at some other convenient point in the furtherfolding of said piece It].

With the piece It! folded to the extent indicated in Figs. 4-6, aportion of a top ply, as the top ply over which in Fig. 4 the cardboardsheet I9 is illustrated as superposed, is diagonally folded, as alongthe line 20, thereby to project said corner portion it as shown in fulllines in Figs. 3, 4, and 6 and as indicated in dot and dash lines at l8in Fig. 3. The edge 2| is illustrated as pinked, to minimize unravellingand to facilitate close examination of the quality of the goods by anintending purchaser.

Next, and to produce from the set up of Fig. 4 the set up of Fig. 3, theformer set up is folded in half along the line a in the direction of thearrow A, see Fig. 5, then along the line b in the direction of the arrowB, see Fig. 6, and then along the line 0 in the direction of the arrowC.

With the corner portion IS in its I8 location in Fig. 3, the finalfolding is along the line (1 in the direction of the arrow D, see Fig.6.

The envelope !2 may be of any desired construction, but as here shownthe same is conventionally illustrated as comprising two blanks 22 and23, the former of elongate rectangular outline, and the latter having amain central portion of like outline, but with this subtended alongthree sides by strip-flaps 24, these last folded over onto the sheet 22and suitably secured thereto, as by an adhesive.

The goods piece I0, folded as in Fig. 3 and then further folded asexplained in connection with the fold line (1, is inserted, with itsside marked by said fold line foremost, all the way into the envelopel2. At the conclusion of this insertion, the sampling corner portion I8is projected beyond the open mouth 25 of the envelope. The last step, tocomplete the packaging, is to fold the envelope [2 along the line 26,the location of this line being determined by the location in theenvelope of the side of the folded piece l0 opposite to its side markedby said fold line 01, and suitably, as by an adhesive, to secure thethus folded over portion 27 of the envelope to the remaining bodythereof; and so dispose the parts as shown in Figs. 1 and 7. Theadhesive last-named may comprise two or more spots thereof, as indicatedat 28.

Where the piece goods is patterned, and has a right side, or its patternis added by imprinting, the piece Iii desirably will be folded to havethe side thereof which is imprinted or which is otherwise its right sideoutwardly facing behind the two faces of the envelope [2; and the foldedpiece ill will also, preferably, be so placed in the envelope that theswatch-like corner portion l8 will have its right Side the side thereofwhich is adjacent to the observer of Figs. 1 and '7.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiment of myinvention, it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to theprecise construction herein disclosed and the right is reserved to allchanges and modifications comin within the scope of the invention asdefined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. A package for a folded piece of textile material having a single plycorner portion extending laterally from between the folds at one sidethereof, comprising an envelope enclosing the folded piece of textilematerial and having a mouth opening along one side thereof, the foldedpiece of material being positioned in said envelope with its cornerportion at the mouth opening, said envelope at said mouth opening havingadjacent parallel co-extensive edge portions beyond the free edges ofwhich the corner portion of the folded piece of material projects whenthe folded piece of textile material is positioned completely in saidenvelope.

2. A package for a folded piece of textile material having a single plycorner portion extending laterally from between the folds at one sidethereof, comprising an envelope enclosing the folded piece of textilematerial and having a mouth opening along one side thereof, the foldedpiece of material being positioned in said envelope with its cornerportion at the mouth opening, said envelope atsaid mouth opening having7 adjacent parallel co-extensive edge portions beyond the free edges ofwhich the corner portion of the folded piece of material projects whenthe folded piece of textile material is positioned completely in saidenvelope, and means sealing said edge portions with the extremity ofsaid corner portion projected beyond the free edges of said edgeportions. i

3. A package for a folded piece of textile material having a single plycorner portion extending laterally from between the folds at one sidethereof, comprising an envelope enclosing the folded piece of textilematerial and having a mouth opening along one side thereof, the foldedpiece of material being positioned in said envelope with its cornerportion at the mouth opening, said envelope at said mouth opening havingadjacent parallel co-extensive edge portions beyond the free edges ofwhich the corner portion 'of the folded piece of material projects whenthe folded piece of textile material is positioned completely in saidenvelope, said edge portions being folded over onto one side of the mainportion of the envelope for closing said mouth opening with theextremity of said corner portion projecting beyond the free edges ofsaid edge portions, and means securing said edge portions to one anotherand to the said one side of said 7 envelope.

4. A package for a folded piece of textile material having a single plycorner portion extending laterally from between the folds at one sidethereof, comprising an envelope enclosing the folded piece of textilematerial and having a mouth opening along one side thereof, the foldedpiece of material being positioned in said envelope with its cornerportion at the mouth opening, said envelope at said mouth opening havingadjacent parallel co-extensive edge portions beyond the free edges ofwhich the corner 7 portion of the folded piece of material projects whenthe folded piece of textile material is positioned completely in saidenvelope, said edge portions being folded over onto one side of the mainportion of the envelope for closing said mouth opening with theextremity of said corner portion projecting beyond the free edges ofsaid edge portions, and means securing said edge portions to one anotherand to the said one side of said envelope, said securing meanscomprising spots of adhesive between the adjacent faces of said edgeportions at the sides of said corner portion and between the said oneside of said envelope and the adjacent edge portion.

IRVING J. MISI-IKIN.

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